The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits “atrocities” but that it attacks the concept of objective truth: it claims to control the past as well as the future. — George Orwell, “As I Please,” Tribune, February 4, 1944 We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers. — Neil…
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How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted
By Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co. | Interview After a tremendous response to his commentary on Truthout, Mike Lofgren has released a new book, “The Party Is Over.” In it he explores what he calls the “company town” of Washington DC, where “the company’s products are politics and military hardware.” Receive a copy from Truthout with a minimum donation…
#GOPFuture: Tempt me back to the old GOP
Published August 28, 2012 Link to article The GOP should cease to be a pseudo-church and once again become a broad-based organization like the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. We have seen how the mixture of politics and religion debases both pursuits, turning the Republican Party into an apocalyptic sect that indulges birthers, candidates who talk about “Second Amendment remedies,”…
Who Is to Blame for Washington Gridlock?
Partisan primaries, cable news, and ‘political terrorism’ create a dysfunctional Congress By SHANNON MCGOVERN Published August 23, 2012 in US News Link to Interview Americans of all political leanings are increasingly frustrated with politics and an apparently dysfunctional Congress. In his book, The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, Mike…
A Devil’s Dictionary
Here’s a new book based on an exclusive Truthout commentary that became a national media sensation. Inside the front cover, publisher Viking Press (Penguin) even mentions that this bombshell insider’s view of Capitol Hill began as a professional and personal confession that “was posted on Truthout and read by millions.” Receive a copy of Mike…
Borrowing and spending the GOP way
Published in the Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2012 Link to Article The big deficit facing the U.S. is mostly Republican in origin, the Congressional Budget Office says. The Bush tax cuts alone have added $3 trillion in red ink, yet the party wants to double down on its failed policy. President Obama’s fiscal policies are…
Iran and the Shape of Things to Come
It is hard not to think of that Gallic witticism when observing recent international events. Aside from almost daily threats from the governments of Israel and the United States to attack Iran – a violation of the United Nations Charter – Iran has been subject to sabotage, violations of its airspace by military drones and…